cold feet

cold feet

Nervousness or anxiety felt before one attempts to do something. I wasn't nervous until the morning of my wedding, but everyone assured me that it was just cold feet.Good luck getting her out on stage—she always gets cold feet before a performance.

*cold feet

Fig. fear of doing something; cowardice at the moment of action. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give someone ~.) The bridegroom got cold feet on the day of the wedding.Sally said I should try skydiving, but I had cold feet.

There was enough clever banter, sexual tension and simmering resentment to convince me that, unlike other revivals from the period - hi Scary, hi Ginger, hi Baby - bringing Cold Feet back in 2016 could turn out to be a pretty good idea.

He said: "I thought, I hadn't really seen a show like Cold Feet for the best part of a decade and while I hope I've written something that isn't warmed up feet, I'd love the people who loved that show to come and see this one.

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